Seeing depth coherence and transparency

Journal of Vision

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 209-223

  Farell, Bart ^a   Li, Simone ^a  

^a Syracuse Institute for Sensory Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Coherence; Disparity; Stereopsis; Threshold vision; Transparency

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CALCULATION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PROBABILITY; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; STEREOSCOPIC VISION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD; ASSOCIATION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISION;

CUES; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMANS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISION DISPARITY; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 2442489668     PISSN: 15347362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/4.3.8     Document Type: Article

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